Chapter 746: Super Bumper Harvest
Xia Ruofei's spiritual power swept away, and he found that there were 9 large plastic sorting boxes scattered in the oak forest, including 5 boxes of white truffles and 4 boxes of black truffles, only one of the boxes containing black truffles was not completely full, and the other 8 sorting boxes were all full.
Xia Ruofei brought extra-large sorting boxes, and if a box full of truffles was visually inspected, there would be at least eighty or ninety catties.
This time it was a bumper harvest, several times more than the one at the beginning of the year!
Xia Ruofei couldn't close his mouth with joy, in his eyes, the big lumps with dirt in the box were not truffles, but stacks of banknotes, and they were green dollars......
He looked up at his watch, and it was already past six o'clock in the evening.
He entered the space around noon, which meant that he had been digging truffles in the space all afternoon.
Xia Ruofei was going to go back to the outside world for dinner first, and then come to deal with these truffles.
Lightning and Xiao Hei's performance today made Xia Ruofei very satisfied, he patted their heads approvingly, and then took them on an all-terrain vehicle to the sea of space to wash off the dirt on their bodies.
Then Xia Ruofei took some more petal solution and rewarded them well.
Out of biological instinct, Xiao Hei couldn't resist the temptation of the petal solution, and they all happily gathered around, gulping down, and finally even a little drop of water at the bottom of the basin was licked clean by them, and they came over and gently pulled Xia Ruofei's trouser leg with unfinished thinking.
Xia Ruofei scolded with a smile: "It's not enough! No, no, no, I'll eat you again! Whoever performs well next time will be rewarded! You guys are lazy during this time, and you don't go out to ......patrol when you see the sun at home."
The lightning was all whining, looking a little aggrieved.
Xia Ruofei couldn't help laughing, his heart softened, and he took a small bottle of petal solution and mixed it with the water of the space spirit pool for them to drink.
In the end, Xia Ruofei brought them all back to the outside world.
Because the water in the sea of space carries a lot of salt, Xia Ruofei asked these dogs to go to his bathroom, rinse them well with a shower head, and dry the water before letting them go downstairs by themselves.
The cafeteria must have been closed at this time, Xia Ruofei went downstairs directly to the kitchen refrigerator to find some dried noodles, beat two eggs, and then took two small cabbages from the space and cooked a big bowl of egg noodles.
Xia Ruofei, who had been busy all afternoon, was already hungry, and the green peach vegetables and fragrant noodles stimulated his appetite, and he ate all the big bowl of noodles in three clicks and five divided by two.
After a brief tidying up, Xia Ruofei couldn't wait to go upstairs and return to the room.
Now that Huzi's mother and Lin Qiao do not live on the farm, Xia Ruofei is a little lonely, but it is much more convenient to act.
When he returned to his room, he locked the doors and windows, and immediately summoned the spirit picture scroll, and then entered the space with a heartbeat.
He next cleans the truffles and weighs the exact weight of the harvest.
In order to save time, Xia Ruofei directly wrapped his spiritual power in the 9 large plastic sorting boxes in the oak forest and went to the Yuan Chu Realm.
Cleaning truffles is also a delicate job.
Xia Ruofei first removed the slightly larger pieces of soil brought out by the truffle, and then used a small brush to brush off the soil on the surface of the truffle little by little, especially in the crevices, which had to be cleaned repeatedly.
The bristles of the small brush are very soft, so you won't hurt the skin of the truffle when you clean off the dirt.
It's a very patient job.
Fortunately, Xia Ruofei has enough time, and patience is not lacking.
He brought in the little maza and sat down, and carefully began to clean the truffles, which were arranged on a large unfolded plastic sheet, according to their type and size.
Xia Ruofei worked for more than ten hours to clean up all the truffles.
Then he took out a small scale and began to weigh it, and also took a notebook to record, this time he asked Xia Qing to help, one person was responsible for handing truffles and records, and the other person was responsible for weighing.
Soon, all the harvests of truffles this season were counted, and the numbers made Xia Ruofei quite excited.
In total, more than 800 catties of truffles were harvested!
This figure is several times that of the harvest at the beginning of the year, of course, this is not the most exciting for Xia Ruofei.
He was really ecstatic that this year's truffles were generally quite large.
At the beginning of the year, there was a giant white truffle, weighing 2.05 kilograms, directly breaking the world record of 1.89 kilograms, and later at the auction this truffle sold for a sky-high price of 1.25 million US dollars, and the auctioned person was the heir of the Italian truffle family who later had a night with Xia Ruofei, the sexy Monica.
The results of Xia Ruofei's weighing just now showed that in this harvest, the largest piece of white truffle actually reached 2.98 kilograms, almost 6 kilograms, which improved the record at the beginning of the year a lot.
Xia Ruofei can imagine what kind of madness such a giant piece of superb white pine will cause when it appears at auction.
As for what kind of price can be auctioned, Xia Ruofei is difficult to judge.
What makes Xia Ruofei even more pleased is that in addition to the 2.98 kg super white truffle, there are two white truffles and two black truffles that also exceed 2.5 kg.
In addition, there are 13 white truffles between 2 kg and 2.5 kg, and 8 black truffles.
In other words, 26 of the truffles harvested this time basically reached or exceeded the weight of the king at the auction at the beginning of the year.
Even taking into account that black truffles are not as expensive as white truffles, there are 16 white truffles that have reached the level of the king at the beginning of the year, and most of them are much heavier than that truffle.
There are countless truffles under two kilograms, and basically the lightest ones reach about 800 grams, so it can be said that all of them are qualified for auction.
In the end, a total of 171 white truffles were harvested, totaling 243 kilograms, and 119 black truffles, totaling 164 kilograms.
The two truffles add up, and the harvest exceeds 800 catties!
After the great joy, Xia Ruofei quickly calmed down.
He realized that if so many truffles were put on the market in one go, even if the truffles were not harvested this year, it would definitely have a big impact on the market price.
This is what Xia Ruofei does not want to see.
Naturally, he wants to maximize profits.
Judging from the information revealed by Ma Xiong, the harvest of the major traditional truffle producing areas this year is generally not good, and the price of the first batch of truffles on the market may climb to a new high.
Xia Ruofei pondered for a moment, and immediately made a decision - in this auction in cooperation with Hengfeng Group, only a part of the truffles can be released, and no more than one-third will be released.
Anyway, the pine season is from November to March and April next year, and Xia Ruofei can ship in small batches and hold three, four or even five auctions.
In this way, the impact on prices will be much smaller.
There is another very important reason for Xia Ruofei to make this decision - there are a lot of large and superb truffles harvested this time, and if they are all placed in one auction, it will be difficult to fetch a high price.
Rare is expensive, these superb truffles can become the protagonist of the auction if they are taken out casually, and if they are all released, they will not highlight their preciousness.
Xia Ruofei quickly divided the truffles, and finally selected about 90 kilograms as the first auction lot, and the remaining truffles were also divided into three parts by him - he initially decided to auction all these truffles in four times, and the time was also as long as possible, as far as possible across the entire truffle season.
In each batch of truffles, there are at least two Big Mac truffles of more than 2.5 kilograms, including at least one black truffle and one white truffle.
The 2.98 kilogram super white truffle, Xia Ruofei did not put it in this batch for auction, but put it in the last batch - the good thing must be the finale.
In this batch, there is a 2.75 kg white truffle and a 2.66 kg black truffle, and then the other truffles of various grades are also matched, and finally there are almost 55 kg of white truffle and 35 kg of black truffle.
Xia Ruofei found a clean plastic sorting box, first poured some rice into the box, and then carefully put the sorted truffles into it piece by piece, trying to leave some gaps, and deliberately not filling them, and finally poured in the rice, filling all the gaps, so that these truffles were buried in the rice.
Although the Lingtu space has an absolute preservation effect, these truffles are to be sent to auction, so he simply uses the traditional preservation method directly, and when the time comes, he can take them out of the space directly.
The truffles were packed into 12 plastic sorting boxes, and Xia Ruofei marked them separately to distinguish the different auctions that were ready to be sent.
The first batch of about 90 kilograms of truffles was packed in two and a half boxes, one of which was black truffles and the other was one and a half white truffles.
After putting all the plastic sorting boxes neatly, Xia Ruofei breathed a long sigh of relief - although he was quite happy to see this box of truffles, he had to say that carefully cleaning up the truffles piece by piece, then classifying, weighing, counting, and then making reasonable allocation, this is really a rather tedious job.
Rao is Xia Ruofei is very energetic, and after doing all this, he also has a sense of relief.
It took nearly twenty hours from the beginning of cleaning the truffles to the completion of all the classification and blending, but fortunately, all of this was completed in the Yuan Chu Realm, and when Xia Ruofei left the space and returned to the outside world, it was only more than eight o'clock in the evening - less than an hour had passed in the outside world.
Xia Ruofei was not in a hurry to contact Ma Xiong.
After all, he only contacted Xia Ruofei today, and this superb truffle is not cabbage, if this piece gets everything done, it will cause unnecessary speculation.
So he decided to talk about it in two or three days.
However, Xia Ruofei was not idle, he first talked to Feng Jing.
When Xia Ruofei came to Feng Jing's office, she was holding a stack of design drawings in her hand, marking and modifying them with red and blue pencils, quite focused.
"Busy?" Xia Ruofei stood at the door and knocked on the door, and said with a smile.
When Feng Jing heard Xia Ruofei's voice, she hurriedly raised her head, got up and said, "The chairman is here! Come in and sit ......."
After pouring Xia Ruofei a glass of water, Feng Jing asked, "Chairman, what are the new instructions?"
Xia Ruofei said with a smile: "This is the interior design of the headquarters building, and it came out so soon?"
"Yes, but there are some things that are not quite in line with what I envisioned, and I am about to ask them to revise a draft and then report back to you!" Feng Jing said with a smile, "The needs of each department are different, and it is quite troublesome to co-ordinate." ”
"You distribute the design drawings of the corresponding floors to specific departments, and let them check them by themselves!" Xia Ruofei said, "You do everything yourself, so where can you be busy?"
"I'm not very satisfied with this first draft, so I'll revise it first and then ask for everyone's opinions. Feng Jing said, and then asked, "Is the chairman looking for me?"
"Oh, it's a bit of a problem. Xia Ruofei said casually, "In a few days, our company will cooperate with Hengfeng Group to hold another auction!"
Feng Jing's eyes lit up when she heard this, she put down the design in her hand, and couldn't wait to ask, "Auction? What is the auction this time? Is it still the best abalone?"
Since joining the company, Feng Jing has found that Xia Ruofei has come up with good things in an endless stream, many of which are not produced by Taoyuan Agriculture, but everyone has their own secrets, and Feng Jing did not delve into it.
Xia Ruofei shook his head and said, "It's not abalone, but it's also very valuable, it's a truffle, a high-quality truffle!"
Feng Jing said happily: "Good thing! This is the top ingredient favored by the upper class! And I heard that this year's truffle harvest is not very good, if we can come up with a high-quality truffle auction, we will definitely be able to fetch a high price!"
Xia Ruofei couldn't help laughing and said, "I didn't expect you to pay attention to the truffle market!"
Feng Jing smiled embarrassedly and said, "On the one hand, it is because I am engaged in this industry now, and I am used to learning about top ingredients......; I had the pleasure of tasting truffles a few times when I was studying abroad, and I still remember the deliciousness of truffles......!
Xia Ruofei said: "You like to eat truffles! This is simple, I'll give you a piece when I go back, you can cook it yourself, and you can take it to a Western restaurant and ask a chef to cook it!"
Feng Jing waved her hand again and again and said, "No, no, no...... It's more expensive than gold......"
"I have a channel to get truffles to go to auction, is it still a problem to taste one or two pieces for you?" Xia Ruofei said disapprerovingly, "That's it!"
Then, Xia Ruofei didn't wait for Feng Jing to refuse, and continued: "Mr. Feng, I came to you today to talk to you, and secondly, I hope that you will be connected with Hengfeng Group in this auction, after all, you have dealt with them before and are more familiar with them." ”
"No problem!" Feng Jing agreed without thinking about it.
"Where do you think the auction is more appropriate?" Xia Ruofei asked again, "I think there are three options, one is in the first-tier cities in the mainland, the other is on Hong Kong Island, and the other is simply to find a place in France or Italy, which is a traditional truffle production area!"
Feng Jing pondered for a while and said: "If you ask for my opinion, I think it may be the most suitable place on Hong Kong Island! First, our last abalone auction on Hong Kong Island was very successful, and it can be said that it has a certain reputation; second, Hong Kong Island itself can be called the capital of oriental cuisine, and Hong Kong Island people know food very well; third, Hengfeng's network is very strong, even if the press conference is held on Hong Kong Island, you can still invite Western high society people to come and participate, of course, the premise is that the quality of our truffles must be very high! ”
Xia Ruofei thought about it, nodded and said, "Okay, I'll discuss it with Mr. Ma again." By the way, Mr. Feng, there is one more thing I must explain to you first......"